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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 29/09/2026

For comparison: in Tina Fey’s Netflix adaptation of the film, Nick is played by a 62-year-old Steve Carrell.

Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 29/09/2026

In Alan Alda’s THE FOUR SEASONS, the friend group judges Nick for fathering a child at the scandalous age of… Forty-three.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9/19/80: Ordinary People D Robert Redford 🙏 / W Alvin Sargent w/Sutherland, MTM, Hutton, Hirsch More @kphipps3000.bsky.social: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-80s-in... @billsimmons.bsky.social / @seanfennessey.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/4mjG... @rafiews.com: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

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In praise of Robert Redford’s Ordinary People

Redford’s directorial debut holds its ground as one of cinema’s most moving explorations of loss and guilt.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 16/09/2026

Hadn’t read a book this fast in a while. Loved it, loved it.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026

Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review

Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026

Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review

Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026

It feels ironic that Casey Affleck’s gothic horror, built upon the notion of inviting one in, is so relentlessly intent on shutting us out, writes @rafiews.com Company – first-look review from #Venezia83

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Company – first-look review

Casey Affleck's sombre gothic horror is over laboured despite an intriguing premise.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 08/09/2026

I adore LIGHT OF MY LIFE, so it breaks my heart to say COMPANY is a messy, aimless bundle of wasted promise. Here’s me for @lwlies.com (in a spoiler-free review of a film that is very easy to spoil): lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Company – first-look review

Casey Affleck's sombre gothic horror is over laboured despite an intriguing premise.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026

Victor di Marco and Márcio Picoli’s London spreads its narrative tentacles with the eagerness of first-time filmmakers hungry to tackle many concerns at once, finds @rafiews.com #Venezia83

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London – first-look review

Victor di Marco and Márcio Picoli's portrait of a queer and disabled sex worker asks interesting questions but underserves an intriguing premise.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026

In her English language debut, Lili Horvát hones in on the parallels between our starved curiosity for the alien and our frustration at the mysteries of our own kind #Venezia83

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My Notes on Mars – first-look review

Lili Horvát’s English language debut stars Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend as a starcrossed couple.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026

Danny Boyle sets the scene for an evisceration of the mighty Rupert Murdoch, but never quite lands a killing blow, finds @rafiews.com #Venezia83

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Ink – first-look review

Danny Boyle's take on the rise of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun fails to spin a convincing yarn.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 03/09/2026

Ok, I recognise my hyperbole in "couldn't look more different," but I still think they look *very* different.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 02/09/2026

Venice has started on a sour note this year. Here's me on Danny Boyle's misguided INK for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/venice-film-...

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Ink – first-look review

Danny Boyle's take on the rise of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun fails to spin a convincing yarn.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 03/09/2026

I think they couldn’t look more different. Some friends think they could be twins. I am going insane.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 03/09/2026

Desperately missing Twitter polls as I struggle with a burning issue on the ground in Venice: do the Mara Sisters look alike?

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 18/08/2026

I’m the first one in my family’s long lineage to read this combination of words

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 07/08/2026

This film is almost 30 years old, by the way.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 07/08/2026

This Woody Harrelson quote from Michael Winterbottom's WELCOME TO SARAJEVO just struck me like a hard blow to the face.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The tech that young ppl generally embrace is stuff that helps them rebel, allows greater self-expressivity, creates a shared generational vernacular. AI ain't it. In fact AI corrals new thinking into stale, billionaire-owned algorithmic patterns that are the opposite. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry

Gen Z is increasingly skeptical about AI, according to a new survey, because of its perceived negative impact on humanity.

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Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They let me get a little spicy on main over *that* NYT op-ed. So without further ado…a few cents on David Ellison’s plea to the American people to let him win this round of Monopoly. Full story at the link 👇

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 30/07/2026

I have, as the kids say, secured the goods.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 28/07/2026

Denis Villeneuve’s The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 28/07/2026

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 27/07/2026

Plus a note: I’m thoroughly enjoying seeing some Capital D Debate on film BlueSky at last. Long may it continue! It’s one of the things I miss the most about the old days of Twitter and that I have only seen brief inklings of around here.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 27/07/2026

Anyway please send me your favourite pieces of criticism on The Odyssey, I yearn for more

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 27/07/2026

I don’t agree with it all, but it’s fascinating to see how someone who dedicated a great portion of their life to interpreting a great piece of literature interprets an interpretation of the text made by someone whose obsessive dedication to his medium mirrors hers but whose entry point differs

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 27/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey at the multiplex yesterday and the packed theatre actually made me a tad emotional. I live in a fairly small city, and most of the time there’s barely half a dozen people in a screening. The waitress at the restaurant nearby said it’s the busiest week they’ve had in years.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 19/07/2026

PLOT TWIST 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/07/2026

Everyone I root for in this World Cup loses

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For most of my life, my pinnacle (as yet unfulfilled) relationship goal has been to have my hair washed on the deck of a boat like in DEAD CALM. RIP to the wonderful Sam Neill who played bad guys and good guys, but who had a specialist talent for making decency the sexier option, even vs Billy Zane.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

SAM NEILL

GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

Many, many great Sam Neill films, but the first to come to my head this morning is the lovely Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Playing the silent grump is a trap to lesser actors, but Neill plays Hec with this palpable undercurrent of tenderness that struck me deeply at the time and still does, now.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13/07/2026

I enjoy the use of “moonwalk” here as it makes it seem like the film now has to make its way backwards towards paying audiences $1 billion back

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